Corset-steel fastening



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CORSET STEEL FASTENING.

No. 314,530. Patented Mar. 24, 1885.

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LUOIAN HILL, OF NORTH BROOKFIELD, ASSIGNOR TO THEODORE (J. BATES, OF \VORGESTER, MASSACHUSETTS.

CORSET-STEEL FASTENING.

SFECIPIOATIQN forming part of Letters Patent No. 314,530, dated March 2%, 1885.

Application filed January 23, 1885.

To all whont it may concern.-

Be it known that I, LUCIAN HILL, of North Brookfield, county of \Vorccster, State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improve- 5 ment in Corset-Steel Fastenings, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, like letters on the drawings representing like parts.

This invention has for its object the production of a new and improved fastening for corsets; and it consists, essentially, in the combination, with a steel having a pair of headed studs, of aspring locking-plate se cured to the opposed steel, said plate being cutaway or-reduced near its heel to permit it to be passed between two headed studs of the pair of studs,.they being placed but a short distance apart. The locking-plate at its outer end is provided with two lateral pro jections, which engage the headed studs, and

attached to the plate, and interposed between the said projections and the reduced portion of the plate, is a spring having a beveled or rounded end, which normally projects be yond the shank of the locking'plate, the said spring being adapted to be forced aside by and to spring behind one of the said studs,

causing both the studs to be retained against the lateral projections to prevent their movement away from the said project-ions, except by overcoming the spring.

Figure 1 is a plan view showing the parts in position to be locked; Fig. 2, a similar view showing the parts locked; Fig. 3, a

modification wherein the locking-spring is se-- cured in a slot at the under side of the locking-plate, and Fig. 4; a modification wherein the plate itself is made as a spring.

The corset-steel A is provided with two headed studs, (1, arranged adjacent to each other, and the corset-steel B has an attached locking-plate, C, which is cut away or reduced near its heel, as at c, to permit the 5 locking-plate to be passed down between the headed studs a. The locking-plate O is also provided with two lateral projections, c, which engage the headed studs a, as will be described. Interposed between the lateral 5o projections c and the cut away or reduced portion 0 of the lockingplate O is a spring, 6,

having a beveled or rounded portion, e,which (N0 model.)

normally projects beyond the shank of the looking-plate C.

After the locking-plate O has been passed between the studs a, as described, movement of the steels away the one from the other forces the spring in toward the center of the plate, and the stud passing beyond allows the said spring to assume its normal position, with its rounded portion 0 projecting into the path of and behind the said stud, thereby bringing the said stud into engagement with its adjacent projection c, and preventing disengagement of the plate and the studs.

To disengage the parts,the steels are moved toward each other with sufficient power to force the spring backout of the path of the stud, and the reduced portion of the plate having been brought between the studs the plate may be disengaged therefrom.

It will be noticed that the spring is held in a groove or cut-away portion in the plate, and that its face is flush or even with the upper surface of said plate.

As set forth, Fig. 3 shows a modification of my fastening, wherein the spring is secured to the under side of the plate.

In Fig. 4 the plate is split centrally to form two independentspringarmswhich are forced together when the projections meet the studs a, and thereafter spring apart to retain the studs in the notches d.

I claim A fastening for corsets, consisting of a pair of headed studs secured adjacent to each other on one corset-steel, and a plate secured to a second corset-steel, having a reduced portion to permit the plate to be passed down between the headed studs, and lateral projeco tions near its free end to prevent the escape of the plate from the studs, and a spring interposed between such reduced portion and lateral projections, and adapted to lock or re tain the studs in engagement with the lateral 9 5 projections of the plate, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

LUGIAN HILL.

Witnesses:

WM. lVIOCREADY, BENJ. L. SAMPSON. 

